Future U

PERSPECTIVES: Combating Campus Racism

Suggestions from the Editorial Board of The Washington Post.

by Future U/ May 12, 2017/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Data suggest yes. Why? Financial assistance targets lower-income families. Upper-income families don’t need help. Those in the middle are squeezed. …

by Future U/ May 11, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“Yale relies on graduate students and other low-paid contingent faculty to teach. Contingent faculty make up about 70% of teachers …

by Future U/ May 10, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

Read about Turning Point USA in this investigative report from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ May 9, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Opinion is from a commentary by Susan Dynarski, Univ. of Michigan, published recently in The New York Times.

by Future U/ May 8, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

In higher education it will hurt the most at-risk faculty group. Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ May 7, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Read Chris Hedges’ provocative essay on what happens “when idiots are in charge.” It’s from TruthDig.

by Future U/ May 6, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Society/

It’s from The Nation. Read more here.

by Future U/ May 5, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Michigan Supported Education, created by Univ. of Michigan’s Dr. Carol Mowbray, offers a six-month college prep program at local college …

by Future U/ May 4, 2017/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“Public higher education embodies the idea that people have a right to an affordable post-secondary education. Entitlement is a danger for the …

by Future U/ May 3, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Today’s trumped up circumstance ratchets up politicization to an all-time high. What to make of it? What to do? Read …

by Future U/ May 2, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“Impostor syndrome is often a factor in the relationship between discrimination & depression and anxiety.” Read more from USAToday.

by Future U/ May 1, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

Read Henry A. Giroux’s essay, published recently in TruthDig and reprinted in LA Progressive.

by Future U/ April 30, 2017/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

More than 100 women have filed criminal complaints accusing Dr. Nassar of assaulting them. Read a new investigative report from …

by Future U/ April 29, 2017/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

In 1947 Hannah Arendt wrote: “People who can no longer believe anything…are deprived not only of the capacity to act, …

by Future U/ April 28, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/